Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)
The role nano structures play in information technology and in life sciences is growing continuously. While many individual building blocks in the nanometer sector have been developed in the past few years, relatively little is known to date about how these components are integrated in complex systems. It is therefore one of the principal objectives of the Nanosystems Initiative (NIM) to create a broad range of artificial and multifunctional nanosystems, to understand the way they function and ultimately to control them. This is the only way to ensure their use in information technology and in life sciences. In a total of five sub-areas the focus ranges, for example, from quantum nanophysics to nanosystems for energy conversion and biomedical nanotechnologies. NIM brings together scientists of international repute from various research facilities in Munich and different disciplines such as physics, biophysics, physical chemistry, biochemistry, pharmaceutics, biology, electrical engineering and medicine to form one unique research association.
Coordinator:
Prof. Dr. Jochen Feldmann
Chair of Photonics and Optoelectronics
Department of Physics and CeNS
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtität München
Amalienstr. 54
D-80799 München
Phone: +49-89-2180-3359
Phone: +49-89-2180-3356 or -3357 (Secretary)
Fax: +49-89-2180-3441
Email: feldmann@lmu.de
Web: www.phog.physik.lmu.de/people/feldmann_jochen
Cooperation partners:
Technische Universität München, University of Augsburg, University of Applied Sciences-München, Walther-Meißner-Institute, Walter Schottky Institute, Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and of Quantum Optics, Deutsches Museum, Center for NanoScience (CeNS).